A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.